{
  "g": "h,empire,asia",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Parthian Empire",
  "now": "iran",
  "years": "247 BC–224 AD",
  "id": "parthian",
  "index": "c/iran:247",
  "title": "Banner of the Parthian Empire",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "black",
      "hex": "#000000",
      "note": "Night sky associated with Mithra worship."
    },
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#fdfe04",
      "cmyk": "0/0/100/0",
      "note": "Solar disc of Mithra."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD) was a Iranian Arsacid state that rivalled Rome in the east; no authenticated flag survives\n - **Construction:** modern reconstruction — a black field bearing a large golden sun disc with radiating flame-like rays, drawing on Parthian coinage and the imperial solar cult of Mithra\n - The Parthians are better attested by the **Draco** — a wind-sock dragon standard — which later spread to Sasanian, Roman, and steppe armies",
  "flag": "empires/parthian.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Parthian Empire",
    "officialName": "Arsacid Parthian Empire",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Parthian cataphracts and horse archers defeated Crassus at Carrhae in 53 BC, one of Rome's worst military disasters\n - The Arsacid dynasty used the title 'Great King of Kings', inherited from the Achaemenids\n - Parthian control of the Silk Road made them crucial middlemen between Rome and Han China",
  "_name": "Parthian Empire",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "parthian"
}